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<\/iframe><\/div>\n<div id=\"article-body\">\n<p>The US president has threatened Russia with 100 per cent secondary tariffs if the war in Ukraine does not end soon, as he announced an agreement with Nato allies to send more weapons to Kyiv.<\/p>\n<p>During a meeting in the Oval Office with Nato secretary-general Mark Rutte on Monday, the US president said he was \u201cvery unhappy\u201d with Moscow over the lack of progress towards a deal to end the conflict.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very unhappy \u2014 I am \u2014 with Russia,\u201d Trump said. \u201cI\u2019m disappointed in President Putin, because I thought we would have had a deal two months ago.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re going to be doing very severe tariffs if we don\u2019t have a deal in 50 days, tariffs at about 100 per cent, you\u2019d call them secondary tariffs,\u201d he added. The tariffs would be \u201cbiting\u201d and \u201cvery, very powerful\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has previously raised the prospect of applying so-called secondary tariffs, which would apply a charge on countries that trade with Moscow, as he has grown increasingly frustrated with Putin\u2019s intransigence in peace talks.<\/p>\n<p>During Monday\u2019s White House meeting, Trump also confirmed plans to send weapons to Ukraine, including Patriot missile systems.<\/p>\n<p>The US president said that \u201cbillions of dollars\u2019 worth of military equipment\u201d would be purchased by Nato allies from the US, and that it would \u201cbe quickly distributed to the battlefield\u201d in Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>Rutte said Germany, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, the Netherlands and Canada all want to be part of the weapons deal.<\/p>\n<p>Trump said that Nato would co-ordinate getting the weaponry to Ukraine. Nato countries \u201cwill move equipment fast into Ukraine\u201d and then the US would backfill allies\u2019 weapons, Rutte said.<\/p>\n<p><em>This is a developing story<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/05009e09-cadc-41ce-b9e6-d53d6e33c5ec\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump\u2019s second term means for Washington,…\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":34243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34242","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34242","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34242\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/financialrush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}